All universal moral principles are idle fancies.

Here am I: at one stroke incestuous, adulteress, sodomite, and all that in a girl who only lost her maidenhead today! What progress, my friends with what rapidity I advance along the thorny road of vice!

God strung up his own son like a side of veal. I shudder to think what he would do to me.

How delightful are the pleasures of the imagination! In those delectable moments, the whole world is ours; not a single creature resists us, we devastate the world, we repopulate it with new objects which, in turn, we immolate. The means to every crime is ours, and we employ them all, we multiply the horror a hundredfold.

Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy...Conscience is not the voice of Nature but only the voice of prejudice.

No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful.

Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.